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1743–1768
Prithvi Narayan Shah, Nepali: पृथ्वीनारायण शाह
Prithvi Narayan Shah · 尼泊尔
18th-century King of Gorkha (1743–1768) and founding monarch of the unified Kingdom of Nepal (1768–1775), creator of modern Nepal.
Born on 11 January 1723 in Gorkha, son of Nara Bhupal Shah. After acceding in 1743 he resolved to unify the divided Nepalese states, first taking the strategic point of Nuwakot (1744), then gradually seizing the three Kathmandu Valley cities of Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur by blockade, siege, and diplomatic division, completing the valley's unification in 1768/1769 and moving the capital to Kathmandu, and thereafter continuing to expand east and west, laying the territorial outline of modern Nepal. He pursued an economic policy favouring agriculture and restraining commerce and self-sufficiency, and left the geopolitical warning that "Nepal is a yam between two boulders", reminding later generations to keep balance between China and India. He died on 11 January 1775 at Devighat, Nuwakot.
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Birthplace Gorkha; place of activity and capital Kathmandu.
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Cultural significance
The "father of the nation" in Nepalese hearts and founder of the Shah dynasty (to 2008); his unification narrative remains a core reference for Nepalese national identity and geopolitical debate.
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